Improvement in buttons and fastenings



J. H. ROBERTSON. Buttons and Fastenings.

.No. 222,309. Patented Dec. 2,1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. ROBERTSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS AND FASTEN'lN GS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,309, dated December 2, 1879; application iiled June 5, 1879. 7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that L'JAMES H. ROBERTSON,

of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Button and Fastening, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Figure l is a section of one of my improved buttons, shown as fastened to a piece of cloth. Fig. 2 is 'a detail section of the front. Fig. 3

is a detail section of theback. Fig. 4 is-a detail side view of the fastening-pin.

The Object of this invention is to furnish buttons which shall be so madet-hat they may be easily and quickly applied to a garment,

which will not injure the cloth, which will not be liable to tear out, and which shall be simple in construction.

The invention consists in the back provided with an inwardly-projecting tube, and the pin made with a wide head and having its point A curved to one side and a notch formed in its its center, and upon its inner side is formed an inwardly-projecting tube, b through which the central hole passes. G is the pin, which is made with a wide head flat upon its inner side and rounded off upon the outer side. The point of the pin 0 is slightly bent to one side, as shown in Fig. 4, and has ,a notch, c, in its concave side, as shown in Fig. 4, in such a position as to be at the inner end of the tube 11, when the said pin has been. passed through the material and through the back B and its tube 12. I

With this construction, as the pin 0 is pressed into place its point strikes the inner surface of the front A, and isbe'nt over, the notch c causing the principal bend to be at the inner end of the tube 1), so that the said pin will be held securely in place, fastening the button firmly to the garment. Y

I am aware that notched studs or pins adapted to be engaged by springs arranged in the tubular sockets of the button-bodyare old; but Y What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The back B, having convex outer sideand provided with an inwardly-projecting central tube, 1), and the pin 0, made with a wide head, and having its point curved to one side, and provided with a notch, 0, formed in its concave side at such a distance from its head as to be at the inner end of the tube b" when the said pin has been passed through the ma .terial, and the said tube, in combination with each other and the front A, substantially as herein shown and described. 4

JAMES HART ROBERTSON.

. Witnesses:

J AIVEES T. GRAHAM, O. SEDGWIGK. 

